Importance Of Child Labour

Child labor is a serious problem that affects children from third-world countries all over the world. These children are exploited by multinational corporations ,for their cheap labor all over the world. People, then buy products that come at a cheaper price, from these multinational corporations.These children are often overworked and treated unfairly. People need to stop buying items from countries that endorse child labor.

Child labour is a very real problem in the world today, and although it is declining, progress is happening at a slow and unequal pace. Child labour by the International Labour Organization is defined as “work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development (Diallo, Etienne, & Mehran, 2013, p. 2).” In the most extreme forms of child labour it could account for child enslavement, separation from their families, exposure to serious hazards and illnesses and being left to fend for themselves on the streets (Dinopoulos & Zhao, 2007). In order for certain types of work to be included as “child labour” depends on the child’s age, the type of work,

For centuries and years child labor has become one of the biggest problem in the world. It’s a challenge and long-term work for many countries to put an end to child labor especially those developing countries it’s one of the issues that’s considered as serious issue these days. Child labor refers to children’s who lose their rights and do things that aren’t supposed to do, it refers to children who go to work at the age of schooling. The international labor organization (ILO, 2013) estimated that there are around 168 million children’s working worldwide and of these 168 million children, 58 million of them are employed in hazardous jobs

First of all, child labor laws should be regulated so that working conditions are safer. Children’s health is diminishing because of the terrible working conditions. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), “23 percent of all children between 5 and 17 years of age were economically active in the year 2000,” and that “About half of these children are estimated to do work that is likely to harm their health, safety, or moral development” (Huebler 4). There is an enormous amount of children that are being harmed at work, and better regulations should be placed to stop this from happening. Children are suffering from injuries at work and the accidents end up unreported. England’s Health and Safety Executive says that there are, “31 reportable accidents involving under-16s at work over the past two years, including 16 major injuries and one fatality” (White 137). This is why accidents are being under-reported, and children that work in illegal industries are worse off. If there are no regulations and nobody is enforcing better and safer work conditions, there will be more children injured each year.

Some children will work in very harsh conditions which could include drug trafficking, prostitution and sometimes in some countries the young children will work in types of military position for their country. A lot of children work in many types of commercial business if they can. You would never believe what these children work in and it is not safe at all for the these children to be working in it, cause it is not safe for adults sometimes also. What’s not safe for adults should not be safe for children you would think? A lot of the work that these children work in are extremely hazardous and the children that will work in these conditions come from extremely poor families and they may also live in a low economic state also. Sometimes these children will work with either no pay at all for their hard work or just little pay for the jobs that they complete. A lot of the commercial jobs that these children are involved have very extreme health risk and concerns to the children

People, policies and technological advances helped shape our nation. People went on reforms to improve living conditions for everyone in the nation. Policies and technological advances were created and made the country flourish. Life right now is the result of people’ hard work.

According to “This Company is Employing Children?” it states, ‘“it's for your own good, it prepares you for adult life” argument. Couldn’t we let count in the same argument for work that helps gaining practical skills or is in line with a culture's ethics?’ It is said that when children go to work at young ages, it is supposed to prepare them for adulthood, but their childhood is at jeopardy that way. People should not be buying products manufactured by children because kids are being put to work at such young ages so their childhood wouldn't be worth anything.

The purpose of Alto’s paper is to present a controversial view that child labor is not always a bad and that it is essential. He illuminates his purpose when he states that “more than 100,00 children and teenagers have organized unions to defend their right to work, demanding government protection and improved job conditions”(para. 2). The evidence that he utilizes is interviews from children that are working in Brazil. The children state that the reality of their families’ condition is what makes them participate in the labor market. The paper has a general audience since it is published in a widely available popular press magazine. Alto refrains from utilizing specific jargon that detracts from his main objective of reaching to individuals

Children were working in factories and other dangerous environments. Children started working at the age of eight years old. They were working in factories and other hazardous places. Employers thought that since children were smaller than adults they

How would you feel if your child was thrown into the sweatshops to work? This continually happens all the time. Child labor has become a big issue in the world. According to merriam-webster.com, child labor “is the employment of a child in a business or industry, especially in violation of state or federal statutes prohibiting the employment of children under a specified age”. Children works on farms, sweatshops and in factories for a low payment and no education. A lot of people know about child labor, but they still buy cheap clothes, toys and other items made by children working in bad conditions and long working hours. Child labor prohibits children to have an education, it takes away their childhood and their freedom, and the child’s

abandonment or death of a parent are some reasons why there is child labor. Child labor is a children who helps augment family income, however if the child’s education and recreation activities doesn’t interfere they can work. Plenty of children are forced to work under inhuman condition and were subjected to physical, sexual and mental abuse. Children working in factories, mining and services are example of these. According to International Labor Organization (2013)(Web site) about 265 million children aged 5-17 or 17% of the global population of children are engaged in child labor.

Child labor has been going on for a long time, and is still going on today. “Philip H. Knight, Nike's chairman and chief executive, also agreed to a demand that the company has long resisted, pledging to allow outsiders from labor and human rights groups to join the independent auditors who inspect the factories in Asia” (Cushman). People should buy products from companies partaking in child labor to manufacture because some children need to support their families with funds and others do not have anywhere else to go or do. Although factories may have bad working conditions, people should still buy from companies doing child labor.

Examples of situations that had previously been considered natural to humanity but are now considered inhumane include child labor, slavery and racial segregation. The reason child labor is now considered inhumane is because of the images and films that were taken by the National Child Labor Committee. These images were publicized in newspapers for the public to see the terrible conditions of the factories and mines (Wagner, 2002). Society and technology continue to develop

Worldwide child labor originated during the Industrial Revolution first in England then the U.S.; many families sent their children to work or else they could not survive because they were poor and many hazardous jobs at the time were considered appropriate for children, even though now many people (but not enough) know better. Everyone had the belief that children should be working and no one was concerned if they didn’t get a formal education, an ideology that has somehow become instilled in the minds of many “employers” of these children today without any moral question or concern. Now, children are used as cheap and efficient labor capital by governments and corporations around the world and it is a direct human rights violation that could be easily avoided. Currently, 168 - 215 million children internationally are involved in child labor, and 85 million of those children are in hazardous work. Out of all the children currently working, 98 million of them work in agriculture (59%), 54 million work in services, and 12 million work in industries. Both services and industries are counted in the informal sector of the economy, and child labor plays an extremely large part in the economies of impoverished countries where it is extremely hard to break the poverty cycle because of this particular human rights violation.

Child laborers are employed everywhere in the world, places like Asia and Africa have a high population of juvenile workers. Sadly the number of exploited adolescents continues to grow. In India minor’s labor makes up 3.6% of it’s entire workforce (LaborAwareness). In addition, about 85% of those children are employed in jobs that involve agricultural work. India is one of the worst examples of child labor abusers. India only represents a minute number. However, world-wide 218 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 are working today (LaborAwareness). Countries like the United States may seem like they would completely abhor the use of child employment, but they are more commonly associated with it than one may think.